and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
“Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”
Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord, give praise, O servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God!
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah
“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.
They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God.
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